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The DGBB Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$250k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$235k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$600kEducation$483kAnimals$109kArts & Culture$65kPublic Safety & Disaster$60kFood & Nutrition$34kCrime & Legal$15k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $235k
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St Marks School of Texas$235,000
North Texas Food Bank$7,500
Dallas Museum of Art$7,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%National Disaster Search Dog Founda: $5k → 10%California Fire Foundation: $5k → 12%Adirondack Foundation: $243k → 13%North Texas Food Bank: $8k → 5%Ranch Hands Rescue: $30k → 8%Bonton Enterprises: $143k → 14%Bridges to Life: $15k → 16%Best Friends Animal Society: $54k → 9%Elevations Foundation Inc: $5k → 12%Feeding America: $26k → 14%United Animal Nations: $5k → 12%Adirondack Foundation: $207k → 13%St Marks School of Texas: $235k → 14%Adirondack Foundation: $145k → 13%St Marks School of Texas: $100k → 14%St Marks School of Texas: $5k → 14%Ranch Hands Rescue: $20k → 14%Modern Mile Dallas: $50k → 14%Dallas Museum of Art: $8k → 14%Dallas Art Fair Foundation: $50k → 14%Dallas Museum of Art: $8k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$405k · 3 repeat orgs$366k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +200% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
10

Total granted

$405k
$358k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+200%
+2%

Still filing today

100%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureAnimalsFood & NutritionHealthCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SM
    ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $340k · revenue -38%
  • RH
    Ranch Hands Rescue
    2× · 2021–2023 · $50k · revenue +200%
  • DM
    Dallas Museum of Art
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +427%

Funded once

  • BE
    BONTON ENTERPRISES
    one grant, 2022 · $143k · revenue -10%
  • BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $54k · revenue +39%
  • DA
    Dallas Art Fair Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +20%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Feeding Texas

To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.

Community Improvement
2
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
3
Brazos Valley Food Bank Inc

Cultivate an environment where our community can grow, contribute and thrive together. a more resilient brazos valley where nutritious food and opportunity are attainable for all.

Food & Nutrition
4
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
5
Animal Agriculture Alliance

The animal agriculture alliance is a nonprofit organization that helps bridge the communication gap between farm and fork. we connect food industry stakeholders, engage food chain influencers and promote consumer choice by helping key…

Food & Nutrition
6
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

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7
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
8
Friends for Animals of Metro Detroit

The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…

Animals
9
Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…

Health
10
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
11
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research

Foundation for food and agriculture research connects funders, researchers and farmers through public-private partnerships to support audacious research addressing the biggest food and agriculture challenges.

Food & Nutrition
12
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Animal Nations Dba Redrover; the most unlike its peers is Ranch Hands Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION: $595,000 · PhilanthropyADIRONDACK FOUNDATION+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $340,000 · EducationST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXASBONTON ENTERPRISES: $143,000 · EducationBONTON ENTERPRISESBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $54,000 · AnimalsRanch Hands Rescue: $50,000 · AnimalsIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $7,500 · OtherCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherUNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER: $5,000 · OtherDallas Art Fair Foundation: $50,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Museum of Art: $15,000 · Arts & CultureFeeding America: $26,000 · Food & NutritionBRIDGES TO LIFE: $15,000 · Crime & LegalNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Health
Philanthropy$600,000Education$483,000Animals$104,000Other$67,500Arts & Culture$65,000Food & Nutrition$26,000Crime & Legal$15,000Health$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetADIRONDACK FOUNDATION: $595,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $340,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBONTON ENTERPRISES: $143,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $54,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDallas Art Fair Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetRanch Hands Rescue: $50,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetFeeding America: $26,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGES TO LIFE: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELEVATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The Dallas FoundationTX13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The DGBB Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The DGBB Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The DGBB Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The DGBB Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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